"130 million Americans—54% of adults between the ages of 16 and 74 years old—lack proficiency in literacy, essentially reading below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level." - Barbara Bush Foundation
- Thank you for these lessons! In going through this program and completing these lessons, I constantly remind myself that so many in society can't read complex information or haven't received the opportunity of a just education to do so. By no means am I proficient at reading or breaking down complex information, but I'm thankful that I have the opportunity to further my understanding and knowledge.
I've honestly realized this myself within the last couple of weeks being in this course and even reading on my own time, how little I am focused on the complexity of the sentence now but my brain is slowly being trained to see the structure of it all in kernels yet not intimidated by it. I am glad that I'm slowly getting a chance at the cake now too. Hope to have more, if not all of it.
Agreed, I even caught myself doing it in my regular life. Was watching game of thrones and caught myself breaking the subtitles into subjects and predicates and conclusions and what not
Fair enough, this sheds some light on a couple things. Think about a scholarly article that is being written about the impact of foreign policies on the exportation and importation of oil. Imagine the amount of the author of the article will put in researching, all the information that he will accumulate. The data, anecdotal sources, and scientific readership that will be used in this journal is tremendous. But, the author only has about 4-5 pages to write. He must rely on grammar, he did all this work and he knows it is extraordinary, but how extraordinary is it really, if he cannot convey it within 4-5 pages? That is where modifiers, linking clauses, and reasonable assumption will pop their head to ensure that the author can express all the work he did in this condensed article.
Think about a tweet that you wanted to create on twitter, and this particular time you had a lot to say and you wanted to tell everyone! However, remember twitter used to have a character limit, remember how frustrating that would be sometimes because we felt that the character limit was holding us back. In reality, if we had a solid understanding of grammar we could of condensed the information within the character limit.
Does anyone else have recommendations where one could practice these topics? I can read and understand articles and books fine but I want to get more into detail rather than rely on intuition, pls help a brother out, thanks!
@SusanLeifker Before reading this section I did think they were a little pretentious, even if they do it unknowingly. I still think they should make some studies more easier to digest, especially those that pertain to health and wellbeing.
Other than this study plan is there other things outside either on 7sage or other sources to better understand the LSAT and how to get the best score possible?
@BrookeRodriguez I have the Powerscore Bibles and they’re pretty good. I have heard from other commenters that the Loophole textbook is also pretty good.
"We are the ones who are confused when we to read their language because we are not used to processing language the way they are." I am the one who is confused when there is a typo.
#feedback - based on the title this page is equating simplicity with clarity, it would help to either rename the page or give more information relevant to the term used in the title, rather than them differing.
@aidanro2003 I think the coordinating conjunction "but" carries over the noun "things" to the next dependent clause "two in particular are simplicity of expression and economy of expression."
So "two" is acting as a modifier on the word "things". The sentence would therefore read as "There are many things we value in our language[,] but two [things] are simplicity of expression and economy of expression."
Adding a noun to the dependent clause makes the sentence an independent clause. So I added a comma.
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This page would've been perfect to insert the picture of Kevin from the Office "why waste time say lot word, why few word do trick".
Loving the program so far!
Why waste time say lot word when picture do trick?
"130 million Americans—54% of adults between the ages of 16 and 74 years old—lack proficiency in literacy, essentially reading below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level." - Barbara Bush Foundation
- Thank you for these lessons! In going through this program and completing these lessons, I constantly remind myself that so many in society can't read complex information or haven't received the opportunity of a just education to do so. By no means am I proficient at reading or breaking down complex information, but I'm thankful that I have the opportunity to further my understanding and knowledge.
I've honestly realized this myself within the last couple of weeks being in this course and even reading on my own time, how little I am focused on the complexity of the sentence now but my brain is slowly being trained to see the structure of it all in kernels yet not intimidated by it. I am glad that I'm slowly getting a chance at the cake now too. Hope to have more, if not all of it.
Agreed, I even caught myself doing it in my regular life. Was watching game of thrones and caught myself breaking the subtitles into subjects and predicates and conclusions and what not
Fair enough, this sheds some light on a couple things. Think about a scholarly article that is being written about the impact of foreign policies on the exportation and importation of oil. Imagine the amount of the author of the article will put in researching, all the information that he will accumulate. The data, anecdotal sources, and scientific readership that will be used in this journal is tremendous. But, the author only has about 4-5 pages to write. He must rely on grammar, he did all this work and he knows it is extraordinary, but how extraordinary is it really, if he cannot convey it within 4-5 pages? That is where modifiers, linking clauses, and reasonable assumption will pop their head to ensure that the author can express all the work he did in this condensed article.
Think about a tweet that you wanted to create on twitter, and this particular time you had a lot to say and you wanted to tell everyone! However, remember twitter used to have a character limit, remember how frustrating that would be sometimes because we felt that the character limit was holding us back. In reality, if we had a solid understanding of grammar we could of condensed the information within the character limit.
"us lay people" lol
English is my third language, so I am looking to taking advantage of these lessons not just for the LSAT but also for life. Thank you.
Me agree.
wrote book. Book okay.
Next book better.
But write story not argument so argument different. Since argument grammar not story grammar. Me relearn like book for argument.
I study English for 5 years. Degree mine. If not obvious. Hard to be like me and me master.
Love that you guys provide a reasoning for your methods of teaching!
I can appreciate a good explanation.
Does anyone else have recommendations where one could practice these topics? I can read and understand articles and books fine but I want to get more into detail rather than rely on intuition, pls help a brother out, thanks!
This is interesting and true! Academics aren't trying to be pretentious with their complex sentences, it is just normal for them at that point
@SusanLeifker Before reading this section I did think they were a little pretentious, even if they do it unknowingly. I still think they should make some studies more easier to digest, especially those that pertain to health and wellbeing.
I agree!
Other than this study plan is there other things outside either on 7sage or other sources to better understand the LSAT and how to get the best score possible?
@BrookeRodriguez I have the Powerscore Bibles and they’re pretty good. I have heard from other commenters that the Loophole textbook is also pretty good.
@Ryo I second this. The Loophole textbook is pretty good.
"We are the ones who are confused when we to read their language because we are not used to processing language the way they are." I am the one who is confused when there is a typo.
grind it out!
All of this is making so much sense, thank you! I feel like I’m processing information so much quicker.
Other resources that I have acquired are the loophole, the LSAT trainer and the Powerscore Bibles .
Perfect execution of describing something in detail and condensing it into the review text.
#feedback - based on the title this page is equating simplicity with clarity, it would help to either rename the page or give more information relevant to the term used in the title, rather than them differing.
Received my power score bible online.
I was using the study plan to study, but a lot of this explanation wasn't included.
This might be pedantic, but I'd like to ask a question of referential with an example from the text above:
"There are many things we value in our language but two in particular are simplicity of expression and economy of expression."
Is "two" a referential that refers to "things," or am I misunderstanding?
@aidanro2003 I think the coordinating conjunction "but" carries over the noun "things" to the next dependent clause "two in particular are simplicity of expression and economy of expression."
So "two" is acting as a modifier on the word "things". The sentence would therefore read as "There are many things we value in our language[,] but two [things] are simplicity of expression and economy of expression."
Adding a noun to the dependent clause makes the sentence an independent clause. So I added a comma.
Thank you for these lessons. This teaching is starting to simplify this process!
Thank you so much for these grammar lessons.